LDS inspiration

  Matthew Watkins @ITalkOfChrist Growing up, I was often frustrated when people spoke of revelation as a "feeling." How am I supposed to develop familiarity with and confidence in an abstract "feeling" I can't describe, define, or quantify? Was I forever cut off from spiritual communication? Then there were the stories in testimony meeting about "just having a little feeling" to pull off the freeway one exit early... only for a semi to smash through where they would have been a moment later. Was my life in danger because I couldn't tell the difference between intrusive impulses and the Spirit? I legitimately got a little paranoid for a while and started exiting the freeway early or waiting a few seconds after a light turned green... just in case it was the Spirit telling me to do so. Later, I learned through experience some important lessons I wish I knew at 14 years old: 1. **When it's urgent, the Spirit will speak to you through whateve...

  Kirk Rollins @nicoraytruth I met my wife in a small mountain town in rural Colorado, a place called Glenwood Springs. She was my neighbor. When I first saw her, it was like being struck by lightning. I knew in that instant that my life as I had known was over and something else had begun. Years later I took her to the top of a mountain at night in Telluride and asked her to marry me. I did not want our story to be a thing that happened only down here. I wanted to point us upward from the very beginning. And out of that love came my son, and I learned that a human being can feel things I did not know were in the catalog of what a person is. Joy beyond joy. The weight of a sleeping child against your chest that rearranges you and tells you, wordlessly, that you have touched the veil somehow. This is why I cannot bear what traditional Christianity has tried to do to heaven, and why you should not bear it either. Joseph Smith taught about the world to come is the most comfor...